The perfect tool to add to any 'therapeutic treasure box',
this set of 68 cards provide a way to help open
conversations and structure discussions with children and
adolescents aged 6+.
The treasure deck offers a fun, non-threatening way to help
to build understanding and forge relationships. It also
provides a safe, playful way for children to articulate and
make sense of their feelings, thoughts, experiences and
beliefs. The deck comes with two different types of card -
the 'feelings cards' and the 'sentence-completion cards' -
which can be used...

Based on direct work with over 250 individual children,
Andrew Miller wrote this book in order to provide parents
and professionals with information, tools and guidance to
help introduce children to autism in the absence of
specialist support. This in-depth guide describes the
practicalities of disclosure, including when to tell, who
should do it and what they need to know beforehand with
strategies to tailor your approach as every child's
experience will be different. Step-by-step instructions
detail how to deliver the programme and produce with a child
a personalised booklet...

As perspectives on private art therapy practice evolve, this
book provides an overview of the range of approaches,
clinical settings, ethical issues and professional
considerations when working outside of the formal structures
of publically-funded services.
An essential guide for art therapy students and experienced
practitioners moving into private practice, it considers the
impact of a private context on theory, practice and
research. The book features contributions from art
therapists with extensive experience in both private
practice and public services and gives practical advice on
potential difficulties, such as managing relationships with
fee-paying...

Art-based activities can develop resilience and self-esteem,
enabling children in need to cope better with ongoing stress
and loss. Arts Activities for Children and Young People in
Need offers interventions and exercises drawn from practice
and research, for practitioners to use as a basis for their
own arts-based groups or one-to-one sessions.
Holistic arts activities facilitate a spiritually sensitive
approach. Mindfulness-based exercises underpin the approach,
and include guided meditations in which a group imagines
that they are clouds, or draw feelings and emotions while
listening to music, to encourage awareness...

Children with ASDs often find it difficult to identify the
things they find difficult and, more importantly, to
recognize the things they are good at. This colourful book
provides simple self-exploration tools to help children
identify their strengths and begin to tackle the things they
find harder. The book explores a range of common
difficulties, including communication, emotional and sensory
regulation, and executive functioning, encouraging children
to explore their personal challenges and abilities in an
engaging and positive way. Illustrated with hundreds of
cartoon-style graphics and containing a wealth of...

The ASD Feel Better Book is designed to help children on the
autism spectrum develop insight into what can upset them and
make them feel bad and then increase their awareness of how
to make themselves feel good again. With visual maps and
icons, the book proceeds through various components of the
body and mind to isolate many of the things that can go
wrong and explores how children can try to set them right.
Designed to be read with an adult, there are problem-solving
exercises and skills...